With two weeks to go before its release, I suppose it would be more newsworthy if Borderlands had not gone to gold master by now.

But it has, and so Gearbox has announced is officially on schedule to deliver you postapocalyptic offworld role-playing shooter action on Oct. 20. Considering the fourth-quarter triple-A delays we've seen this year, yeah, that's at least worth a picture of a robot throwing confetti.